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Category: History
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Devil's Rope
4 / 5
Devil's Rope
2014
1 hr 29 min.
The history of barbed wire, whose use dates back to the first settlers of the Wild West, always driven by their reckless and ruthless spirit of conquest and selfish ambition to leave their mark on wild lands; of its relationship with politics and mercantilism; of the perversion of the millenary relationship between men and animals; of the evolution of surveillance techniques. Fences and borders: the tragic tale of the enclosure of the world.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny
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The Great Escape
dir. John Sturges
4 / 5
The Great Escape
1963
2 hr 52 min.
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Genre: Przygodowy, Dramat, Historyczny, Thriller, Wojenny
Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, John Leyton, Angus Lennie, Nigel Stock, Robert Graf, Jud Taylor, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Ulrich Beiger, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Robert Desmond, Til Kiwe, Heinz Weiss, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty, Arthur Atkinson
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We Who Remain
dir. Trevor Snapp
4 / 5
We Who Remain
2017
0 hr 50 min.
Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fighters of the Nuba people have held since 2011 against the government of President Omar al-Bashir and the Sudanese army, which crudely show the hard daily life of Hannan, a brave woman fighting for the survival of her family; Jordania, a promising student; Mosquito, a reckless journalist; and Al-Bagir, a rebel leader.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Wojenny
Actors: Hannan Osman Kajo, Al-Bagir Ibrahim Hamdan, Musa 'Mosquito' John, Jordania Jamal Abdel-Raheem
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Stronger Than a Bullet
dir. Maryam Ebrahimi
4 / 5
Stronger Than a Bullet
2017
1 hr 15 min.
Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny
Actors: Saeid Sadeghi, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein
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Queen Marie of Romania
4 / 5
Queen Marie of Romania
2019
1 hr 50 min.
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
Genre: Dramat, Historyczny
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Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
4 / 5
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
2022
0 hr 55 min.
Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
Actors: Thelonious Monk
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Jean de la Fontaine and His Fables
4 / 5
Jean de la Fontaine and His Fables
2021
0 hr 53 min.
An account of the life of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), author of more than one hundred fables and a model for many other European fabulists of later times.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
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Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star
4 / 5
Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star
2022
0 hr 53 min.
An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from his beginnings as a soccer player in the Spain of the 1960s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, to his astonishing worldwide success.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny, film TV
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The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
4 / 5
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
2022
0 hr 55 min.
France in the 1960s, Jean Dejoux, a self-taught inventor, came to the ORTF's Research Centre with a crazy idea: to build a machine to make cartoons. From the Shadocks to Asterix, from Chuck Jones to Norman McLaren, from Paris to Hollywood stopping off in Italy, here are the little-known and exciting adventures of a visionary and his peculiar machine.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny
Actors: Jacques Chaussepied
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Throne of Blood
dir. Akira Kurosawa
4 / 5
Throne of Blood
1957
1 hr 48 min.
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Genre: Dramat, Historyczny
Actors: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Takamaru Sasaki, Gen Shimizu, Kokuten Kôdô, Kichijirô Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yutaka Sada, Yoshio Inaba, Takeshi Katô, Hitoshi Takagi, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Nakajirô Tomita, Sachio Sakai, Shin Ôtomo, Seijirô Onda, Senkichi Ômura, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura, Takeo Oikawa, Seijirô Onda, Shinpei Takagi, Masao Masuda, Shirō Tsuchiya, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Ôtomo, Michiya Higuchi, Shôbun Inoue, Gorô Sakurai, Kamayuki Tsubono, Fuminori Ôhashi
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Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s
dir. Alessandro Melazzini
4 / 5
Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s
2021
1 hr 2 min.
The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not just another kind of dance-pop music, but also the origin of an aesthetic, a true social phenomenon and the creative center of a very profitable industry.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny
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The Nazis, Photography and the Rabbi
4 / 5
The Nazis, Photography and the Rabbi
2023
0 hr 44 min.
The extraordinary story of German businessman Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956), second only to his father in ownership of the optics company that developed the famous and highly successful Leica camera, and his heroic struggle against Nazism.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
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The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
4 / 5
The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
2022
0 hr 53 min.
The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original, creative and relevant British bands of the sixties and of the entire history of pop music.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny, film TV
Actors: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Ken Russell
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Klingert's Diving Suit
4 / 5
Klingert's Diving Suit
2021
0 hr 20 min.
Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.
Genre: Animacja, Historyczny, Dramat, Przygodowy, Fantasy
Actors: Marcin Dorociński
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Book Hunters
4 / 5
Book Hunters
2017
0 hr 52 min.
When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny
Actors: Robert Levin
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The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
4 / 5
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
2021
0 hr 54 min.
Many have challenged the studios. But none of them managed to win the battle. Not even Bette Davis, who was the Queen of Hollywood. And then, Olivia de Havilland came. After a first battle against Jack Warner to let her play the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind, the actress will attack one of the biggest Hollywood machines: the Warner Studio. This episode will contribute greatly to the legend of the actress who started one of the most feminist process conducted so far in the film industry. Olivia de Havilland was the Hollywood Insoumise (insubordinate).
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Victoria Hogan
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The birth of a black hero in cinema
4 / 5
The birth of a black hero in cinema
2022
0 hr 53 min.
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles disrupted the black hero figure in the american cinema with "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song". This documentary relates the genesis of this crackdown movie, who initiates the Blaxploitation movement, from "Shaft" of Gordon Parks to "Jackie Brown", the Quentin Tarantino's tribute to the genre.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny
Actors: Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles
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Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine
dir. Olivier Julien
4 / 5
Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine
2020
1 hr 31 min.
A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern concept of haute cuisine, and who also became the main reference point for many generations of future chefs.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
Actors: Florence Trinca, Laetitia Ohnona, Pierre Gribling, Clément Jacqmin, Laurent Martinez
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Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights?
4 / 5
Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights?
2023
0 hr 52 min.
The stories of The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) have captivated mankind for centuries. However, two of its most famous tales do not belong to the original canon.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
Actors: Gabi Hinterstoisser
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Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance
4 / 5
Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance
2022
0 hr 54 min.
In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë sisters, published her novel Wuthering Heights, a dark romance set in the desolation of the moors, a unique work of early Victorian literature that stunned contemporary critics.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
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Ode to the Sun: An Art History
4 / 5
Ode to the Sun: An Art History
2023
0 hr 52 min.
A look at the Sun, the star that revolves at the center of the Solar System, and its representation in art throughout history.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV
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Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
4 / 5
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
2021
0 hr 52 min.
When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.
Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, Muzyczny, film TV
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Lawrence of Arabia
dir. David Lean
4 / 5
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
3 hr 36 min.
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Genre: Przygodowy, Dramat, Historyczny, Wojenny
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, John Barry, Bruce Beeby, Fred Bennett, John Bennett, Steve Birtles, Robert Bolt, Peter Burton, J.R.M. Chapman, Barbara Cole , Basil Dignam, Peter Dukelow, Mohamed El Habachi, Kenneth Fortescue, Harry Fowler, James Hayter, Jack Hedley, Rafael Hernández, Noel Howlett, Patrick Kavanagh, David Lean, Ian MacNaughton, Clive Morton, Daniel Moynihan, Henry Oscar, George Plimpton, Bryan Pringle, Ernie Rice, Robert Rietti, John Robinson, Norman Rossington, John Ruddock, Fernando Sancho, Stuart Saunders, Cyril Shaps, Roy Stevens, Barry Warren
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The Legend of King Solomon
dir. Albert Hanan Kaminski
4 / 5
The Legend of King Solomon
2017
1 hr 20 min.
Eager to impress the Queen of Sheeba, a young Solomon accidentally releases the devil Asmodeus from his prison. With the Kingdom of Jerusalem in peril, Solomon and Princess Naama work together to find an end to Asmodeus' evil rule.
Genre: Historyczny, Animacja
Actors: Nagy Ervin, Gábor Csőre, Anna Pálmai, Zoltán Schneider, Zoltán Csankó, Bogdányi Titanilla, László Szacsvay, Harsányi Gábor, Tamás Fodor, Éva Szabó, Zsuzsa Horváth, Esztergályos Cecília, János Papp, Schnell Ádám, Péter Takátsy, Kerekes József, Andrádi Zsanett, Végh Péter
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Available series:
The Pacific
3.9 / 5
The Pacific
2010
1 hr 0 min.
Genre: Historyczny, Dramat, Przygodowy, Wojenny
Actors: James Badge Dale, Jon Seda, Joseph Mazzello, Ashton Holmes, Jacob Pitts, Rami Malek, William Sadler, Jon Bernthal, Anna Torv, Matt Craven, Noel Fisher, Nate Corddry, Brendan Fletcher, Isabel Lucas, Claire van der Boom, Caroline Dhavernas, Annie Parisse, Keith Nobbs, Tom Hanks
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Amar es para siempre
2.645 / 5
Amar es para siempre
2013
Genre: Dramat, Historyczny, Familijny
Actors: Manuel Baqueiro, José Antonio Sayagués
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